The bleeding continues...

[Monte Davis]

This. Notice that on the last page, Maxine's sons riverrunning off to
school as they were on the first, the real (or "real") catastrophe is still
impending:

 "...both of them standing just like this, folded in just this precarious
light, ready to step out into their peaceable city, still safe from the
spiders and bots that one day too soon will be coming for it, to claim-jump
it in the name of the indexed world."

On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 9:51 AM jody2.718 <jody2.718 at protonmail.com> wrote:

> And for most people the 9/11 attacks were experienced as Virtual Reality,
> even on the Upper West Side. In that sense, any work of art depicting the
> context of the events must, to some extent, challenge and come into
> competition with the sanctioned "reality." The attacks and aftermath tore a
> huge- drive a truck through- hole between the virtual and the real. What
> has come through that hole is still being negotiated and worked out. I'm
> thinking of Reg and Eric, here, and their "bleeding edge" mobile server
> rig, as at least a metaphor for a new hybrid reality- as difficult to pin
> down as a mobile missile launcher
>
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> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
> On Thursday, September 13, 2018 1:21 PM, Thomas Eckhardt <
> thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 13 Sep 2018 13:06:08 +0000
> > "jody2.718" jody2.718 at protonmail.com wrote:
> >
> > > One other point: Bleeding Edge is one of Pynchon's
> > > better works, insufficiently discussed, probably because
> > > its publication was somewhat overshadowed by the
> > > expectation of, and finally the release of, the rather
> > > lame film version of Inherent Vice.
> >
> > Agreed. Also the subject matter of the September 11 attacks and its
> > treatment in the novel might have played a role.
>
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